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<p>During the opening ceremony of PyeongChang Winter Olympics, 169 Russian athletes marched in grey uniforms under the Olympic flag. The Olympic Athletes of Russia are the result of one of the worst doping scandals in sports history. At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and 2016 Rio Olympics, numerous Russian athletes tested positive for having performance-enhancing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University approved a fall reading week for the 2018-19 academic year at its Feb. 15 senate committee meeting. The reading week will coincide with the University of New Brunswick&#8217;s reading week from Nov. 5 to 9. The motion carried with only one vote against. St. Thomas instituted a fall reading day in 2013, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In 1996, the year Tina Oh was born, there were 362 parts per million of carbon in the air. According to Oh, 350 parts per million were considered to be safe.  “I was born into a dying world,&#8221; Oh said in an interview with The Aquinian.  “We’re just trying to survive at this point.” Instead [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University approved a fall reading week for the 2018-19 academic year at its Feb. 15 senate committee meeting. The reading week will coincide with the University of New Brunswick&#8217;s reading week from Nov. 5 to 9. The motion carried with only one vote against. St. Thomas instituted a fall reading day in 2013, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Pascale Divertius told the crowd at the Feb. 8 Black History Month panel that Canada’s perception as a racial “safe haven” is false. “Canada is very intentional in creating a multicultural myth and using it as a justification for why racism can’t possibly live here,” she said. The Haitian-born co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sean Thompson grew up watching Jeopardy. Now he’s just a phone call away from his dream of making it on the television show as a contestant. The St. Thomas University alumnus loved the “game aspect” of trivia shows growing up. After entering high school he became involved with Reach for the Top, the Canadian academic [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fredericton MP Matt DeCourcey will be receiving over 60 Valentine’s Day cards this week from St. Thomas University students. These cards, however, will not be filled with your typical love notes. Rather, they&#8217;ll be calls to action. The cards are part of STU’s involvement in the national Have a Heart campaign coordinated across the country [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Wolastoqiyik Grand Chief Ron Tremblay shared perspectives on how life began, the creation of the world and the unity found in the symbol of a pipe as part of the Longhouse Elders Gathering at St. Thomas University. Approximately 80 people, including elders from across the province, attended the first day of the midwinter celebrations on Feb. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Two environmental groups are rising from the ashes at St. Thomas University. The Fredericton Young Greens club was brought back to life in September by recent graduate and deputy leader of the Green Party of N.B., Denis Boulet, after it had been dormant since 2015. STU’s vice-president of finance Lily Fraser is looking to re-establish [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University will host its first Black History Month panel on Feb. 8 at 6 p.m in Kinsella Auditorium. The event will discuss what it’s like to be black in Canada and the challenges black people still face in the country. Last year little was done to acknowledge Black History Month. Associate vice-president communications [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A hall of flags representing the home countries of St. Thomas University international students will soon be installed in James Dunn Hall. It’s not actually a hall. It’s a wall. “For each given year, we’ll be looking at which countries are represented and making sure that those flags are present,” said Carrie Monteith-Levesque, the international [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Birth control is in the top spot on St. Thomas University’s student health plan usage, and the campus pharmacist says he’s dedicated to ensuring students have all the access they need. Numbers from the 2016-17 year show 499 students, or 54.6 per cent, of the 799 enroled in STU’s health plan use it to get [&hellip;]</p>

<p>South Korea is geared up and ready to host the PyeongChang Winter Olympics this year, and will march under a “unification flag” with North Korea to encourage peace between the two nations. Whanboo Shim, a student from Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is prouder than ever. Shim was at STU from 2012 to 2015, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amended bylaw passed A bylaw that was temporarily suspended to allow the appointment of Alexa Metallic to the Indigenous representative position was amended. The bylaw previously stated that if someone was appointed to an interim position, an official byelection for the position had to be held two weeks later. The amended bylaw now reads, “Should [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The federal government announced a new $1,600-grant geared toward adults returning to school on Jan. 24 and students are welcoming it with open arms. Brianna Workman, vice-president education of the St. Thomas University Students&#8217; Union, said she was pleasantly surprised by the announcement. &#8220;Being a pretty traditional university student myself, one that came right out [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Premier Brian Gallant spoke in broad, electoral strokes at the state of the province address on Jan. 25, highlighting the free tuition and child care programs as wins for New Brunswick post-secondary education and the economy. “I am very proud to say that I am the premier, we are the government, that has invested the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>St. Thomas University is the only publicly-funded university in the province that has not signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on tuition and funding with the Government of New Brunswick. The University of New Brunswick, Mount Allison University and Université de Moncton have signed the agreement for 2018-19 to 2020-21. The agreement means the universities will receive [&hellip;]</p>

<p>For some people, it’s very difficult to decide what they’re going to do for the rest of their life at such a young age. In countries like mine, only law, medicine and engineering are seen with good eyes. However, what I really wanted to do with my life was actually travel around the world and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Posters placed around campus by white supremacist vandals this past year have been on people’s minds on College Hill and across the province. In writing this letter, we want to bring your attention to the exact flaws in the message these organizations are pushing. Pointing out that these people are racists and bigots is accurate, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Mandatory sexual assault training At a meeting on Jan. 18, at-large representative Sean Kinney brought forth a motion to make the Jan. 19 sexual assault training optional for STUSU members rather than mandatory. Kinney said he had been approached by a number of fellow STUSU members who feared the content and intensity of the training [&hellip;]</p>